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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves

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Every Little Thing (band)
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Every Little Thing is a pop/soft rock duo from Japan who debuted in August 1996 with the release of their first single called Feel My Heart. Their name is written in English, and only rarely in katakana. They gained massive popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as of 2013, Every Little Thing has sold over 23 million copies of singles and albums throughout Japan. Their second studio album, Time to Destination, is the album of the band with over 3.5 million copies sold. Also known as ELT by their fans, Every Little Thing was originally a trio but became a duo in 2000 with Kaori Mochida as the singer, Mitsuru Igarashi left ELT following the release of their third original album, Eternity. Ito began playing guitar in bands around the US Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Tokyo. He initially intended to play drums, Mochida made her debut as a baby in an advertisement for diapers as her mom hoped she would enter the entertainment business. In 1991, at the age of 13, she joined the girl group The Kuro Buta All-Stars. Though not successful, the experience convinced her to record a two track demo, featuring the two songs, Mouichido and a song from 1970s/1980s singer-songwriter Mariya Takeuchi. She sent the demo to Avex Trax, where Mitsuru Igarashi was a looking for a girl for a new duo with him as the keyboardist. Ito, over ten years Mochidas senior, has said that when first meeting the young Mochida wearing gyaru style thick platform boots, the band released their debut single Feel My Heart on August 7,1996. The single peaked at number 24 on the Oricon charts and their first studio album, called Everlasting was a big success, selling nearly two million copies in Japan, and marking ELT as a popular group with a bright future. The band reached number 1 at the Oricon charts for the first time with their fourth single, For the Moment. Their second studio album, entitled Time to Destination, was released on April 15,1998, the album ended up being the bands best-selling album, as well as the 10th best-selling album of all time in Japan. This album also included their single, Time Goes By. Upon the release of the studio album, Eternity, released in March 2000. Ito later said that the decision was dropped on them without warning, right before a tour, the remaining duo decided to tour acoustically for the next two years in order to find their feet, but also enjoyed more creative freedom over the songs. Their fourth album and first as a duo,4 Force, was released on March 22,2001

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J-pop
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J-pop, natively also known simply as pops, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. J-pop was further defined by new groups in the late 1970s, particularly electronic synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. Eventually, J-pop replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene, the term was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese music from foreign music, and now refers to most Japanese popular music. The origin of modern J-pop is said to be Japanese-language rock music inspired by the likes of The Beatles, unlike the Japanese music genre called kayōkyoku, J-pop uses a special kind of pronunciation, which is similar to that of English. One notable singer to do so is Keisuke Kuwata, who pronounced the Japanese word karada as kyerada, additionally, unlike Western music, the major second was usually not used in Japanese music, except art music, before rock music became popular in Japan. At first, the term J-pop was used only for Western-style musicians in Japan, such as Pizzicato Five and Flippers Guitar, on the other hand, Mitsuhiro Hidaka of AAA from Avex Trax said that J-pop was originally derived from the Eurobeat genre. However, the became a blanket term, covering other music genres—such as the majority of Japanese rock music of the 1990s. O. A. Because the band did not want to perform J-pop music, their album featured the 1980s Pop of MTV, according to his fellow band member Toru Hidaka, the 1990s music that influenced him was not listened to by fans of other music in Japan at that time. Hide of Greeeen openly described their genre as J-pop. He said, I also love rock, hip hop and breakbeats, for example, hip hop musicians learn the culture of hip hop when they begin their career. We are not like those musicians and we love the music as very much. Those professional people may say What are you doing, but I think that our musical style is cool after all. By the Taishō period, Western musical techniques and instruments, which had introduced to Japan in the Meiji period, were widely used. Influenced by Western genres such as jazz and blues, ryūkōka incorporated Western instruments such as the violin, harmonica, however, the melodies were often written according to the traditional Japanese pentatonic scale. In the 1930s, Ichiro Fujiyama released popular songs with his tenor voice, Fujiyama sang songs with a lower volume than opera through the microphone. Jazz musician Ryoichi Hattori attempted to produce Japanese native music which had a flavor of blues and he composed Noriko Awayas hit song Wakare no Blues. Awaya became a popular singer and was called Queen of Blues in Japan. Due to pressure from the Imperial Army during the war, the performance of music was temporarily halted in Japan

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Avex Trax
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Avex Trax is a record label owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex Group. The label was launched in September 1990, and was the first label by the Group and this led to the birth of the Avex Trax label. The first artist to sign for the label was TRF, which became a success, formerly distributed by the Nippon Crown label, in 1997 it became a self-distributed label together with Cutting Edge, which was formerly distributed by Toshiba-EMI by that time. Official website Parent Company website Avex Trax at Anime News Networks encyclopedia Avex Trax at the Internet Movie Database

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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DVD
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DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. The medium can store any kind of data and is widely used for software. DVDs offer higher capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD, such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs can be recorded using a DVD recorder. Rewritable DVDs can be recorded and erased many times, DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs. The OED also states that in 1995, The companies said the name of the format will simply be DVD. Toshiba had been using the name ‘digital video disk’, but that was switched to ‘digital versatile disk’ after computer companies complained that it left out their applications, Digital versatile disc is the explanation provided in a DVD Forum Primer from 2000 and in the DVD Forums mission statement. There were several formats developed for recording video on optical discs before the DVD, Optical recording technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 and first patented in 1961. A consumer optical disc data format known as LaserDisc was developed in the United States and it used much larger discs than the later formats. CD Video used analog video encoding on optical discs matching the established standard 120 mm size of audio CDs, Video CD became one of the first formats for distributing digitally encoded films in this format, in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc formats were being developed. By the time of the launches for both formats in January 1995, the MMCD nomenclature had been dropped, and Philips and Sony were referring to their format as Digital Video Disc. Representatives from the SD camp asked IBM for advice on the system to use for their disc. Alan E. Bell, a researcher from IBMs Almaden Research Center, got that request and this group was referred to as the Technical Working Group, or TWG. On August 14,1995, an ad hoc group formed from five computer companies issued a release stating that they would only accept a single format. The TWG voted to both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged standard. They recruited Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, to pressure the executives of the warring factions, as a result, the DVD specification provided a storage capacity of 4.7 GB for a single-layered, single-sided disc and 8.5 GB for a dual-layered, single-sided disc

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Nippon Budokan
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Nippon Budokan, often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The Budokan was the location where many Live at the Budokan albums were recorded, including those of Bob Dylan, Cheap Trick, Dream Theater and Ozzy Osbourne. The Nippon Budokan, however, was built for the judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics, hence its name. The Nippon Budokan is located in Kitanomaru Park in the center of Tokyo and this 42 m high imposing octagonal structure holds 14,471 people. The building is modeled after Yumedono in Hōryū-ji in Nara, though it still functions as a venue for big musical events, its primary purpose is for Japanese martial arts. The national championships of the different branches of the arts are held annually at the Budokan. For wrestling fans the Budokan is associated with professional wrestlings big shows, typically from All Japan Pro Wrestling, however, due to declining business following the death of Mitsuharu Misawa and the retirement of Kenta Kobashi, professional wrestling promotions have ceased running regular shows in the Budokan. The Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki hybrid rules fight held at the Budokan in 1976 is seen as a forerunner to mixed martial arts, k-1, Shooto and Pride Fighting Championships have all held events at the arena. The Beatles were the first rock group to perform here, in a series of shows in June/July 1966 and their appearances were met with opposition from those who felt the appearance of a western pop group would defile the martial arts arena. In July 1973 Japanese television recorded the Santana performance at Budokan, however, the Budokan gained worldwide fame when American artists Cheap Trick and Bob Dylan used the arena to record their performances, Cheap Trick at Budokan and Bob Dylan at Budokan, respectively. Artists to release recordings from this venue include, Uriah Heep,1973, Deep Purple,1972. The Carpenters,1974, The Carpenter - Live At Budokan 1974 Rainbow, 12/16/1976, bay City Rollers,1977, Rollerworld, Live at the Budokan 1977, released as Rollerworld, Live at the Budokan 1977 in 2001. Cheap Trick,1978, Cheap Trick at Budokan Ian Gillan Band, 1977–1978, eric Clapton, December 1979, Just One Night. Diana Ross,1977, An Evening with Diana Ross concert was videotaped during her 1977 tour, Bob Dylan,1979, Bob Dylan at Budokan, recorded during his 1978 world tour. Yellow Magic Orchestra,1980, Live At Budokan 1980, recorded 1980, Quincy Jones,1981, Quincy Jones Live at the Budokan. Dave Grusin,1983, Dave Grusin and the NY-LA Dream Band, michael Schenker Group,1982, One Night at Budokan. Asia,1983, Live at Budokan, Asia in Asia. Frank Sinatra,1985, Live at the Budokan Hall, Tokyo Iron Maiden,1987, Somewhere on tour Tin Machine,1992, Skid Row Skid Row - Live at Budokan, Tokyo 1992

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Kaori Mochida
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Kaori Mochida is the female lead singer of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing. Mochida began her career as an actress, appearing in magazines. She then became a member of the generation of idol group The Kuro Buta All-Stars. Shortly after, she released her first single as a solo artist and she didnt decide to become a singer professionally until she was in high school. In 1995, she met Mitsuru Igarashi, and signed to the Avex label. At first she was meant to debut as a solo artist, but as Max Matsuura suggested, she formed a duo with Igarashi. They debuted in 1996 with Feel My Heart, following her debut with Every Little Thing, Mochida became a popular fashion icon in Japan, and started to appear in TV commercials for a wide variety of beauty products. The spots that she starred in usually used the songs of her band as background music, after the departure of Mitsuru Igarashi from Every Little Thing in 2000, Mochida started to take more control in the music making process, and soon started to write her own songs. The first song for Every Little Thing that she wrote lyrics for was All along included in the Time to Destination album, and the first song she composed was Jump, released as a single in 2001. She did not release any music until 2002, when she participated in the Avex charity project Song+Nation. In 2004, she released Itsunomanika Shōjo wa, a single of Yosui Inoue which was produced by the musician himself. In 2006, she wrote Haruka Ayases debut single Period along with Takeshi Kobayashi and this year she also provided vocals for Dragon Ashs song Wipe Your Eyes, song that also had a promotional video despite not being released as a single. In 2009, Kaori Mochidas solo career started, and she started to work on her first solo album. She released her first official single, Ame no Walts. The song was credited as a collaboration between Mochida and Sakerock, a Japanese instrumental band, in March she and Takao Tajima from Original Love formed a special group called Caocao, and recorded a cover of Kojin Jugyo by Finger 5. The song was used as song for the movie Oppai Volleyball. In July she released a double A-side single entitled Shizuka na Yoru/Weather, the album featured collaborations with several artists, such as Lisa Ono, Ikuko Harada, Yuichi Ohata, Bic Runga, ohashiTrio, and Sean Lennon. It debuted at number 9 in the Oricon charts and enjoyed moderated success, on August 25,2009, her second album, Niu, was released

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Everlasting (Every Little Thing album)
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Everlasting is the debut album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on April 9,1997. Unless otherwise stated, Mitsuru Igarashi wrote the lyrics, composed and arranged the music, feel My Heart Future World Dear My Friend everlasting information at Avex Network

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Time to Destination
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Time to Destination is the second full album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on April 15,1998. It is the album from the band, with 3,520,330 copies sold. All songs written, composed and arranged by Mitsuru Igarashi, unless otherwise noted, time to Destination information at Avex Network. Time to Destination information at Oricon, time to Destination information at Mora. jp

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4 Force
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4 Force is the fourth album from the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on March 22,2001. In his wake, vocalist Kaori Mochida took over writing, while guitarist Ichirō Itō. All lyrics written by Kaori Mochida,4 Force information at Avex Network

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Many Pieces
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Many Pieces is the fifth album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on March 19,2003. Many Pieces showed a change in ELTs music, because of the departure of synthesizers. All lyrics written by Kaori Mochida, notes ^a co-arranged by Every Little Thing ^b co-arranged by Ichiro Ito Many Pieces information at Avex Network

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Commonplace (album)
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Commonplace is the sixth album of the Japanese band Every Little Thing, released on March 10,2004 by Avex Trax. The album contains mainly soft rock and acoustic-like tunes, and a few rockish tunes as well, ichirō Itō played guitar in all the songs, and also participated in the arrangements and compositions of some of them. All the lyrics were written by Kaori Mochida, but received help on track 5 Country Road, the album was released in a regular CD only version and a limited edition with a bonus DVD. The multimedia material includes behind the scenes shots at the album photoshoot, all lyrics written by Kaori Mochida, except track 5 and secret track in track 12. Notes ^a co-arranged by Every Little Thing ^b co-arranged by Ichiro Ito Commonplace information at Avex Network

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Crispy Park
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Crispy Park is the seventh album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on August 9,2006. The albums seemingly unconventional name has the meaning of an atmosphere thats both fresh and exciting, according to ELTs official website. All lyrics written by Kaori Mochida, notes ^a co-arranged by Every Little Thing ^b co-arranged by Ichiro Ito ^c Christmas concert held at the Urakami Cathedral on December 11,2005. Crispy Park information at Avex Network

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Ordinary (Every Little Thing album)
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Ordinary is the tenth studio album by Japanese music duo Every Little Thing. It was released on September 21,2011, by Avex Trax, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the band in the music industry, the album was released in three formats, CD, DVD+DVD and a special CD+DVD edition. The album includes the single Sora/Koe, which was used as songs for the 2011 Pokémon movie, Black—Victini and Reshiram/White—Victini. The last single from the album, entitled Ai ga Aru, was used as song for TV drama Full Throttle Girl. Also, for promotional purposes the songs Tomorrow, Ordinary and Begin were used in adverts for H. I. S, kracie and The Japan Jewellery Association, respectively. All lyrics written by Kaori Mochida, notes ^a co-arranged by Every Little Thing ^b co-arranged by Ichiro Ito

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Fun-Fare
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Fun-Fare is the eleventh studio album by Japanese music duo Every Little Thing. It was released on February 19,2014, by Avex Trax, forever, released digitally in August 2013. Start, which was used on TV Tokyo coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics, was released digitally on February 5,2014, in its first week, Fun-Fare charted at number seven on the Oricon charts, selling 9,891 copies. On its second week it fell abruptly to the 50th position on the charts, notes ^a co-arranged by Every Little Thing ^b co-arranged by Ichiro Ito

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Untitled 4 Ballads
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Untitled 4 Ballads is a song by the Japanese J-pop group Every Little Thing, released on December 18,2002, as their twenty-third single. It was their single to top the Oricon chart. Nostalgia was used as the song for the drama Okaasan to Issho. Unspeakable Ai no Uta Ruumu Nostalgia Unspeakable Ai no Uta Ruumu Nostalgia Untitled 4 Ballads information at Avex Network, Untitled 4 Ballads information at Oricon

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Every Best Single 2
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Every Best Single 2 is the second greatest hits compilation of J-pop duo Every Little Thing, released on September 10,2003 by Avex Trax. Nevertheless, as bonus tracks it includes two singles, For the Moment and Deatta Koro no Yō ni, in newly recorded acoustic versions. This compilation was the first release of the band to be released with a bonus DVD, the album received the award for Rock & Pop Album of the Year at the 18th Japan Gold Disc Awards. The album peaked at one on the Oricon charts and charted for 38 weeks. Notes ^a co-arranged by Every Little Thing ^b co-arranged by Ichiro Ito

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Every Little Thing discography
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The band debuted with their single Feel My Heart on August 7,1996, which peaked at number twenty-four on the Japanese Oricon charts. Their first number one single was For The Moment, released on June 4,1997 and their most successful year was 1998, in which they released their 8th single Time Goes By which topped the charts and sold more than a million copies. Their second studio album Time to Destination released that sold more than 3.5 million copies in Japan. Number one singles of the band include Forever Yours, Fragile, Untitled 4 Ballads, since their debut, Mitsuru Igarashi wrote, composed, arranged and produced almost all of their music, but in 2000 he decided to leave the group. Since then, Mochida and Ito started to more control in their music making process as a band. However, in 2009-2000, Igarashi and Every Little Thing met again, the Remixes Analog Box Set The Remixes II Analog Set DVD-Audio Every Best Single +3 Koibumi/Good Night Official website Every Little Thing discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs